Window sash and weather-strip construction



Jan. 24, 1933. R. T. AXE 1,895,064

WINDOW SASH AND WEATHER STRIP CONSTRUCTION Original Fi1ed` July l, 1929 i L l IP /4' fr"l:l '11 Z4 TSH-Z5 1 ll l 7g* LE 5 n 1.11.3@ 7-77 du /5 l Il li /X/ @l 7 l *Il l l I 9/'1 l' s?! 1 Il l1 l m f T /fldfg l/@fe @aff l T u I 'I ;,g4. iig/Z5 B INVENTOR l li 1 iig. M/ M Patented Jan. 24, 1933 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ROY T. AXE, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE O. M. EDWARDS COMPANY m0., OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, .A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK WINDOW SASH AND WEATHER-STRIP CONSTRUCTION Application filed J'uly 1, 1929, Serial No. 375,133. Renewed August 15, 1932.

This invention relates to window constructions particularly for railway cars, busses and other vehicles, and has for its object a particularly simple and eficient wear receiving member attachable to the sash serving also, when desired, as a weather strip mounting and also particularly simple and eicient assembly of the sash with its weather stription.

` Figure 2 is a cross sectional view on line 2--2, Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a cross sectional view through the detached wear and weather strip mem` ber.

Figure 4 is a fragmentary elevation of the detached wear and weather strip member.

Figure 5 is a fragmentary elevation of the sash member or stile to which the weather strip member is applied.

1 designates the sash guide which is secured to the window frame 2 inany suitable manner.

The guide is here shown as formed up of sheet metal and is provided with opposing walls 3, 4 serving as inner and outer window'stops, and also 'with a bottom strip 5. The wall 3 is formed with an offset portion 6 of greater width than the sash and the bottom 5 is formed with a flange 7 lapping the inner face of the odset portion 6 providing an internal recess and offset 8 beyond the plane ot' the inner face of the sash member 9. The outer stop 4 meets the bottom 5 and is secured thereto in any suitable manner as by welding. l

The sashl 9 maybe of any suitable form, size and construction and may be wood or sheet metal. It is here shown as lformed up of sheet metalrectangular in general vform and provided with a re-entrant groove 10 for receiving the margins of t glass pane 11.

The detachable wear a' d weather strip member comprises a body sh ped to embrace the margin of the stile of the sash and an offset portion located in the window guide for receiving a weather strip. The oiset portionmay be omitted when the weather` strip feature is not used. The body is in the form of a channel 12, folded up of sheet metal to have inner and outer walls or flanges 13, 14, and a bottom 15, the inner and outerwalls 13 and 14 engaging or lapping the inner and outer walls of the stile of the sash and at least one of these walls being interlocked with the stile.

As seen in Figure 2, one of the walls of the channel, as the wall 14 is deflected inwardly when detached so as to be tensioned to grip the `stile when placedon the stile. This wall and the adjacent inner wall of the stile is also provided with interlocking openings and projections.

As seen in Figures 4 and 5, the flange 14 is provided with inwardly extending projections 16 struck therefrom and the inner wall of the stile is provided with slots 17 for receiving the projections. V

The wall 13 is also formed with an angular lip 18 opposed to, or overhanging the edge of the wall or window stop 3 to further render the sash weather tight or to act as a baille for currents of air that may nd their way past the weather strip member to be presently described.

I The bottom 15 of the channel of the weather strip member overlies the edge of the sash. The weather strip member is also provided with a Hange 19 offset from, and opposed to, the outer face of the bottom 15 providing a recess or channel for receiving a weather strip 20.

As here illustrated, the weather strip member is folded up from a sheet metal plank to form the body, channel shaped and the outer Wall or angel of the wall 13 is formed with an integral extension 21 folded back upon the wall 13 and this extension is provided at its edge with the annular flange 19.

The Weather strip 20 is provided with a head 22 beyond the open side of the channel provided between the :flange 19 and the bottom 15 of the body. rl`his head 22 enters or fills the recess 8 and partly laps the inner face of the sash or the overlying wall 14 of the weather strip member. The weather strip 20 may be of any suitable yielding material as felt or rubber. Also, the sash, and the weather strip member are preferably held assembled by fastening members extending through the edge wall of the 'sash and the bot- `tom 15 of the body of the weather strip member, the weather strip 2O and the flange 19, these fastening members being usually stud rivets 23 located with their inner heads projecting through holes 24 in the edge wall of the sash member and having their outer heads riveted over on the outer face of the flange 19.

The weather strip member with the weather strip 20 is assembled, as a unit and applied to the edge of the sash, the projections 16 snapping into the slots 17 and the inner heads 'of the rivet 23 extending into the holes 24.

The weather strip member also serves as a wear strip between the sash and the window guide and relieves the sash of wear particularly when the sash is made of relatively thin sheet metal or brass. Said strips further tend to stiffen the sash made up of thin sheet metal so that the sash is practically relieved y of wearing strain.

Owing to this construction, the weather strip member can be made up as a unit and applied to the sash and also, when necessary,

renewals of wear and weather strip members can be readily and economically applied to the sash.

.unit applied by unskilled workmen to the openings in the wall of the structure to which 'the window is to be applied without disturbing the accuracy of the parts of the unit.

What I claim is:

1. The combination with a window sash, of a weather strip member having means for embracing the margin of a sash member and engaging the inner and outer sides thereof and being also formed with an offset flange opposed to the intermediate part of the weather strip member which overlies the edge of the sash to form a recess, and a Weather strip in the recess and means for holding the weather strip from lengthwise novement relative to the weather strip mem- 2. The combination with a window sash, of a weather strip member embracing the margin of the sash member and coacting with the front and rear walls thereof and a' flange offset from and spaced apart from the intermediate portion of the weather strip member at the edge of the sash member forming a channel with substantially parallel sides opening toward one ofthe window stops, a. weather strip in the channel, and means for holding the weather strip from lengthwise movement relative to the weather strip member.

3. The combination with a window sash, of a weather strip member formed up of sheet metal and having a body portion in the form of a channel fitting the margin of the sash member, the walls of the channel coacting with the front and rear walls of the sash member and one of the walls of the channel being folded upon itself and projecting beyond the bottom of the channel and having an angularly extending flange opposed to the outer face of the bottom of the forming a second channel opening toward one of the window stops and a weather strip in the second channel, and means associated with the weather strip member and the weather strip for holding the same from relative endwise movement.

4. The combination with a window sash, of a member comprising a body embracing the margin of the sash and coacting with the front and rear faces of the sash and provided with means for interlocking with one of said walls of the sash.

. 5. The combination with a window sash, of a member comprising a body embracing the margin of the sash and coacting with the front and rear faces of the sash and provided with-means for interlocking with one of said walls of the sash, the body having means for carrying a weather strip, beyond the edge of the sas 6. The combination with a window sash, of a member comprising a body in the form of a. channel for fitting the margin of the sash member, the sides of the channel engaging the inner and outer walls of the sash member and one of the walls of the sash member and one of the sides of the channel being sides of the channel being provided with interlocking means.

8. The combination with a Window sash, of a member comprising a body in the form of a Achannel for fitting the margin of the sash member, the sidesof the channel engaging the inner and outer walls of the sash member and one of the walls of the sash memneaaoea ber and the contiguous wall of the channel being provided with interlocking projections and openings.

9. The combination with a window sash, of a member comprising a resilient sheet netal body in the form of a channel for embracing the margin of a sash member, one of the walls of the channel being deflected inwardly toward the other to tension the same whereby7 when the body is applied to the sash member, the walls of the channel grip the sash member, one of the walls of the sash member and one of the sides of the channel member being provided with interlocking depressions and projections.

10. The combination of a window sash and a guide therefor, the guide being provided with inner and outer Window stops opposed to the front and rear walls of the sash, the guide being formed with an internal offset channel portion extending beyond the plane of one side face of the sash member and a weather strip movable with the sash member and located at the edge of the same and having a head extending into the offset channel of the window guide.

11. The combination of a window guide, a sash movable in the guide, the guide being formed with inner and outer stops opposed to the front and rear faces of the sash, and the sash having means for carrying a weather strip in the guide at the edge of the sash, the guide being formed with an internal odset recess in one of the stops thereof located beyond the plane of the adjacent side face of the sash member, the recess being arranged to overlap said side face of the sash member, and a weather strip within the sash and located at the edge thereof within the guide and having an end portion located in said recess.

12. The combination with a Window guide, a sash member movable in the guide, the guide having front and rear stops opposed to the front and rear faces of the sash, a Weather strip member comprising a body portion in. the form of a channel embracing the margin ot' the sash member within the guide and carrying a weather strip at the edge of the sash and Within the guide, the front and rear walls of the channel engaging the `front and rear walls ofthe sash member and one of the walls of the channel body portion being formed with a lip extending across the/edgeof one of the walls ot the guide which forms one of the window stops.

13. The combination with a Window sash,

of a Weather strip member having means for embracing the margin of a sash stile, the stile having openings through the edge wall thereof, said member engaging the inner and outer walls and the edge Wall of said stile and having a flange offset from the portion engaging the edge wall of the stile forming a channel opening toward one of the window stops, a

weather strip in the channel and means for securing the weather strip in the channel and projecting into the openings in the edge wall of the stile.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name at Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, and State of New York, this 13th day of June, 1929.

ROY T. AXE. 

